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I don't need a Brooks Brothers suit, nor do I want one. Lenox China can stay empty and since there is no bookstore anywhere in the mall (used to be 3 threr) I guess they assume nobody reads anymore. At this point, the only useful thing there will be the movies and I can always go to Shoppingtown for that.

Let's see, no hotels to attract conventions and larger events to bring in $$ like we were promised, expensive stores where no one will be able to afford to shop but Bob Congel, more low paying retail jobs. no property taxes on the place for many years. And our elected officials ended up being Congel's lap dogs for giving him everything this robber baron asked for and got.

I can't wait for the city government to pull another Stupid Pet Trick. What'll it be this time?

Some might say that I'm anti-Cuse. No, I love it here. It's the decisions our elected officials make that makes me sick.

Matter of fact, I have seen Bruce more than once. 1984, 1988,1992 & his acoustic show here at the Landmark Theatre here in Syracuse in 1996. I'm well aware of how good he is live. But this setup is pretty bad all around, from the prices to the layout. That's my sroty and I'm sticking to it!

Granted, the face value of the ticket is $108, but how many people are gonna go out to the Vernon Downs box office to save themselves the fee? No matter how you slice it, $120 is the price you are going to pay, face value has nothing to do with it in this case.

$108? Try again. Ticketmaster lists the tickets at $120.95! Someone better call the "Highway Patrolman" because I wanna report Highway Robbery. Whomever came up with that figure obviously has no sense of reality of how depressed the exonomy is up here. And general admission at that? Would have been better for Bruce to play the Dome for two nights and they would make more money at reduced ticket prices than at Vernon Downs. I used to think Bruce was a man of the people, now I'm not so sure.

Loved the article. Brings back some memories. I was here ini 1975 in a six week summer program taking a course at SU. In early July, a carload of my friends came up from Long Island and we all went to the War Memorial to catch The Eagles and Joe Walsh. At the end of rhe show, Walsh came out to jam with The Eagles, forshadowing the future lineup of the classic band. Great show, wish I'd gotten pictures. In 2000, now a resident of Syracuse, caught the solo Elton John show there, one of the best I ever saw him do.

A story appeared on Channel 9 tonight about the Verizon workers that are going on strike if they do not get a new contract. The piece went on to mention that Verizon is seeking to outsource more jobs to India. The legislature in Washington is whining about not rasing taxes on the wealthy, yet they are allowing American companies to ship jobs overseas, creating more unemployment, increased cost on programs to help the jobless and less revenue from people paying taxes on their payroll. OK, how about this, you idiots--Punish companies that outsource out of the country, keep the jobs here, leave jobs for skilled workers in the country and they can continue to pay their freight, just as they have always done. Less unemployemt, more tax revenue and we might just become stronger as a nation in the process. Does this make sense, or am I asking too much?

Didn't anyone ever tell you about what happens when you assume? If you really want to know, I don't drive because I am legally blind, so what do you say now? As far as Destiny, maybe I don't see well, but I can smell you know what when it plops.

I never believed that Congel would finish the project in the first place. Everyone, the city included, has been taken for a ride. For my money, it appeared to just be a real estate scheme to suck everyone dry and benefit no one but Congel. Excuse me, but I do know the difference between the clink of coin and the soft plop of stable droppings.

Saks definitely does not fit in with the economic picture of the area. If anyone thinks we need a store like that, they are dreaming. The problem is that the mall developers want to build something bigger than the Mall of America. I've been to Minneapolis and seen the Mall. You need a more cosmopolitan city with lots more to recommend it than Syracuse has got. Before they think about building a gigantic shopping experience, they should think about building up the city and putting more around it.